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HOGAN LAN MÔR

Published in Mamiaith, Arachne Press 2019

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Hogan Lan Môr: Project

Ganwyd rhwng dau fôr

croen dŵr hallt, yn


droednoeth ar y tywod

mae’n cyffwrdd adra.


Y llanw sy’n gwthio

a’i thynnu yn ôl, ar goll


yn gwybod does dim

byd yn ei dal fel y môr.


Mae wastad yn gwybod

bod o’n disgwyl amdani,


hitha a’r rhai â ddewiswyd

y mamau sy’n gadael drysau


heb eu cloi i blant neith 

byth ddod adra.

Hogan Lan Môr: Text

Hogan Lan Môr
(Seaside Girl)

Born between two seas

with salt-water skin


barefoot on sand

she touches home.


Currents push and pull

her back lost and sick


with knowing, nothing

will hold her like the sea.


She knows it’s waiting

for her with the other


chosen few whose

mothers leave doors


unlocked for children

that are never coming

home.

Hogan Lan Môr: Text

Other poems by Ness Owen

Hogan Lan Môr: Text
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